What the Heck?????

[AngieM]

Wow! I am so glad to see this Forum...I am a recovering person...when I got sober, and did treatment, was informed I had an eating disorder...I did not know it though...Of course I was withering away at 90 lbs, and 5 ft 8 inches tall. I have had nothing but success with my recovery since 1-1-89, until lately....this is a sneaky disease...! All of my support family, know me as a recovering Alcoholic, so thats what we talk about, I would never share my eathing disorder in this group..have not been to any other meetings for my eating disorder...guess thats where I start. I see it in my daughter...I found a letter she wrote to a friend that said"Bones are beautiful"
Is that scary or what???
I am going to try to find a meeting in my area today. I am soo glad you all are here...
Hugs, Angie:29:

[peajaye]

Hi Angie, I've been sober since 87 but have struggled terribly with overeating. It is insidious, addiction...

[Dutchmaster]

Ditto, Angie.

I'm an OA and an AA, too. My disease shows up in a cycle of compulsive overeater-anorexia flip-flop. I've been in the hospital from the bones to the fat.

When I moved to Virginia from South Carolina, I was already slipping and sliding, so I blamed OA here as not being as strong as where I had come from. Good old rationalization and justification at work in my head! In SC, In SC I had several years of the most stable weight I've experienced, but...... the disease lived on.

Well, once again for the sixth time in my life, the weight has climbed back on. I now believe I need to try OA in my present community again. When it didn't seem very strong 10 years ago when I moved to the town I now call home, I went deep into AA (not bad - I grew in leaps and bounds there).

Now I'm facing the food compulsion monster again. Once again the weight's back up and the food talks loud. As for me, I'm going back home to OA - the place where I originally found food and other sanity. It was 20 years ago last June that I attended my first OA meeting.

It worked when I worked it - the longest 10 years of food sanity I've known to date. I believe that, for us to even have this conversation, that alone is an indicator that we have come a long way. So time to get out my action shoes again.

Have y'all ever downloaded speakers from XA-Speakers.org (http://www.xa-speakers.org)? There's OA, AA, and a bunch of other "A's." I find it excellent.